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This thread is a present for Evo's birthday
There was some media coverage of Heracleion here and here the other day.
Check out the links, awesome photo's.
However the global sea level rise in the last 3000 years was maybe three feet, so only 15 feet would be accounted for. It's geologically interesting to find out what *exactly* was responsible for the other 135 feet.
There was some media coverage of Heracleion here and here the other day.
Check out the links, awesome photo's.
Submerged under 150 feet of water, the site sits in what is now the Bay of Aboukir. In the 8th Century BC, when the city is thought to have been built, it would have sat at the mouth of the River Nile delta as it opened up into the Mediterranean.
Scientists still have little idea what caused the city to slip into the water nearly 1,000 years later, but it is thought that gradual sea level rise combined with a sudden collapse of the unstable sediment the city was built on caused the area to drop by around 12 feet.
However the global sea level rise in the last 3000 years was maybe three feet, so only 15 feet would be accounted for. It's geologically interesting to find out what *exactly* was responsible for the other 135 feet.